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Wow its been a long time since I posted! Since yesterday was my 17 month post op anniversary~ Never thought I would be were I am today! Today was a day I achieved another goal of mine. I was able to run 3 miles. As of today I have lost 110 lbs and very happy with the results. I do struggle daily with the lose skin. I found out the insurance wont pay for it since its not medically necessary. I dont have the money right now to get the plastic surgery I want. I would like to have the "girls" made smaller and put where they are supposed to be and lost the extra skin on my tummy. I am thinking of talking to my PCP about the struggle. I am so afraid if I dont get something done I will fall into a depression about it. I dont want to do it for anyone else but me. I go to see my PCP next week and will go from there. 
I am a little nervous about going to see the OB/Gyn next week to since I have my 6 month checkup for cervical cancer. I went through it and thankfully we caught it early but have been on checkups ever 3 and 6 months for past year and half. I need to keep my fingers crossed that this one is normal and i can go back to my yearly checkup again! Well done blabbing for today and will post again soon!

Here I am a full year post op! I never thought in a million years that I would be called skinny or told that I need to quit losing or I might blow away! This past year has had a lot of ups and downs. Thankfully the downs arent near as many as the ups. I look back at the past year and I am still shocked at how far I have come! When I started this journey, I never thought I could do the things I do now. I have made so many friends here on this site that  have added to my life. It seems like thank you to all them will never be enough. I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and was on over 400 units of insulin a day and along with 9 medications and now I am just supposed to take a low dose aspirin everyday. I even went through a bout of cervical cancer and the doctor said that it could of been becuase of the weight. Who would of thought that would be the reason. I have made great strides to improve my health and make sure that this surgery is a success. I still fight everyday with the weight. I worry so much more about it now than I ever did. Maybe if I had worried more about it earlier in life I would of never had to go thru the surgery. I go back to the University of Minnesota-Fairview on January 31st for my one year checkup. I would like to post more and will as soon as I can. If you are reading this and still trying to decide if the surgery is for you. There are no magical answers and only you can make the decision! I would do it again in a heartbeat. I must have known that this was the right thing for me to do since the day of surgery I was so calm I had the nurses worried. I feel it was a sign from God telling me everything was going to be ok and I would make it through just fine and on my way to a better life and healthier life!